If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
To possess taste, one must have some soul.
The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.